To strip, or not to strip...

[Daryl Morse]

Thanks to all who responded to my query about stripping dx* binaries.
The universal response was that stripping would not result in any
reduction in memory utilization, as the symbol tables are not loaded
anyway.

In addition, John Hoffman from Digital <hoffman at decvax.dec.com> was
kind enough to give a very good reason *not* to strip the binaries:

<Several DECwindows executables on the RISC platform are shipped 
<unstripped due to requirements in the condition-handling code
<of the Image Services Libraries that are used by these executables.
<Stripping the executables breaks the ability of these executables
<to gracefully recover from errors encountered in the image routines.

<This requirement and the accompanying extra-large disk usage will be
<remedied in a future release.

<John Hoffman
<Digital Equipment Corporation
<ULTRIX Engineering Group
<Nashua, NH  
<(603) 881-0422
<hoffman at flume.zk3.dec.com OR hoffman at decwrl.dec.com

Thanks again.
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